Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich.

That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.

The blacks have their parties, hustle a little liquor, get some things together, and I used to play for those peoples. They'd come get me on time, but they wouldn't bring me back on time... Done picked cotton all day, play all night long, then pick cotton all day the next day before I could get a chance to sleep.

I went down to my baby's house and I sit down on her steps. She said, now come on in now, you know, my husband just left.

He took my music, but he gave me my name.

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Saturday night is your big night. Everybody used to fry up fish and have one hell of a time. Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. And be glad of it. And they really liked the low-down blues.